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Easily digestible tech news....Re: Re: Re: Re: I wonder...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c221
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:06:50 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c221Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c201
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:06:12 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c201Let me see if I have this straighthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c67
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:04:39 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c67for four years and during all that time, everyone in possession of that fact (which would necessarily include everyone she corresponded with) refrained from raising hell?

Didn't any of them grasp that this necessarily meant that their messages were also traversing whichever service was hosting her account? And that they were thereby trusting that service's system and network admins? (Even if the messages were encrypted, which I doubt, the mail system logs would yield useful data for traffic analysis.)

2001 was way off, but we still had space shuttles and space stations, and now we've even landed on a comet.

1984 lacked subtlety and went full-bleakness, but we've got creeping surveillance infiltrating our lives from disparate sources ranging from the NSA to Samsung.

But ISDS? This is a very disappointing response that reality has given to Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy. TAFTA/TIPP is a sorry excuse for zaibatsu mercs mini-nuking each other's mobile R&D labs.]]>Re: Re: Re: I wonder...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c176
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 10:55:38 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c176https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/master/src/com/android/settings/RadioInfo.java

It has "WCDMA only" and "LTE only", but unfortunately no "LTE/WCDMA only". It also seems a bit abandoned, judging by the commits.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150301/07242630172/australian-secretary-defense-not-concerned-about-phone-hack-doesnt-think-people-want-to-spy-his-phone.shtml#c350
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 10:52:08 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150301/07242630172/australian-secretary-defense-not-concerned-about-phone-hack-doesnt-think-people-want-to-spy-his-phone.shtml#c350His only concern is that they have their own surveillance state, to hell with other issues, or consequences of their own actions

Yeah, if you can figure out how to use BitCoin in the first place. Every single "tutorial" I've looked at glosses over the details and only talks about it in abstract terms. Installing "wallets", "mining". Where's the tutorial where it tells you step by step how to set it up, put money into it using a normal payment method and then use it to pay for something?]]>Re: Re: When cops liehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/07014530180/should-punishment-falsely-accusing-people-crime-match-punishment-crime-itself.shtml#c578
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 10:34:32 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/07014530180/should-punishment-falsely-accusing-people-crime-match-punishment-crime-itself.shtml#c578I am in America, and I don't have any such trust.

"the average citizen has to jump through hoops to get one"

Not really. In the vast majority of America, you can get a gun without jumping through any hoops at all by buying from gun shows or other individuals.]]>